Erickson is the former editor of the website RedState and appears on Fox News and CNN. He recently launched a new conservative website called The Resurgent, where the endorsement was published as the site’s first.

Erickson wrote that former Chatham County GOP chairman Jim Duncan is a “self-made man” who “knows small business” and “is in no hurry to climb a social ladder in Washington, D.C.”

“Voters in NC-2 are more and more aware of all the ways Renee Ellmers has stabbed them in the back,” Erickson said. “Jim Duncan is everything Renee Ellmers is not – a person who puts principle before ambition and promises before party leader demands.”

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